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Bit Manipulationhard70 minSoftware Engineer

Search Policy State Compression

Software Engineer signal: bitmask DP + state compression in a product search context. This is a ProdMatch-owned software engineer drill, framed as a March 2026 Flipkart Search Quality simulation, not a copied platform question.

Company context

Flipkart · Search Quality

Freshness

March 2026

Product surface

product search

ProdMatch interview simulation based on product-team patterns; not a claim of a real company question.

Question

For product search, each documents requires a subset of capabilities. Choose the smallest team of services covering all required capabilities; tie-break by lowest total risk.

Input

  • m capabilities and services with capability masks plus risk.

Output

  • Minimum service count and risk, or impossible.

Constraints

  • 1 <= m <= 22
  • 1 <= services.length <= 2000
  • Capability sets may overlap heavily.

Concepts

  • invariants
  • API correctness
  • graph modelling
  • bitmask DP
  • state compression
  • subset enumeration

required={A,B,C}, services=[AB risk 4, C risk 1] -> count=2, risk=5

Approach

Try framing your own approach first. The 30 seconds you think before peeking is where learning happens.

Clean Solution

Reveal the approach first.

How well did you understand?

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Common Mistakes

  • Do not shift beyond the integer width in fixed-width languages.
  • Keep feature-to-bit mapping stable.

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